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Emotion, Rationality, and the “Wisdom of Repugnance”
Author(s) -
KAEBNICK GREGORY E.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1353/hcr.0.0037
Subject(s) - irrational number , rationality , morality , bioethics , psychology , social psychology , epistemology , environmental ethics , sociology , law , philosophy , political science , geometry , mathematics
Much work in bioethics tries to sidestep bedrock questions about moral values. This is fine if we agree on our values; arguments about human enhancement suggest we do not. One bedrock question underlying these arguments concerns the role of emotion in morality: worries about enhancement are derided as emotional and thus irrational. In fact, both emotion and reason are integral to all moral judgment.